The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness - The Flaming Lips

They started up the hill

With their young lives exploding still

They love to dream and run

They had the grass and the trees and the sun

They dreamed of the gold they’d find

At the top of the hill as they climbed

No one would ever doubt

Their spirit and strength would run out

But the hill was steep and long

They never thought they’d be wrong

It wasn’t a hill at all

It was a mountain a thousand feet tall

But with the gold still in their thoughts

They used their young lives to climb and climb

By the time they got up to the peak

They were old and they were weak

There was no gold that they could find

It was all just in their minds

They had dreamed and they had loved

They found the grass and the trees and the sun

They said «What do we do now?»

Spend the rest of our lives climbing back down?

Or we can treasure what we find

And make it golden in our minds